HuffPost reporter Nicholson among the layoffs

HuffPost reporter Jonathan Nicholson was among the layoffs on Thursday and is now looking for a job to cover economic policy.

He has been covering Congress and campaigns. Previously, he was a Congressional reporter, working on a contractual basis at MarketWatch.

Before that, he was deputy team leader and assistant managing editor at Bloomberg Government. He reported for the Bureau of National Affairs/Bloomberg Government. He was also a treasury department reporter at both Thomson Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires.

Nicholson has a B.A. in journalism from the University of Oklahoma.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.